Stone Roses' singer's takeaway special

A Caribbean chef who used to cook jerk chicken in a pot over a coal fire on the streets of north and south Manchester almost 20 years ago made dumplings to die for. And when Jamaican-born Buzzrocks Anderson – named after the tasty dough balls for which he was famous – upgraded to an 8ft by 8ft trailer his fan base expanded.

A Caribbean chef who used to cook jerk chicken in a pot over a coal fire on the streets of north and south Manchester almost 20 years ago made dumplings to die for.

And when Jamaican-born Buzzrocks Anderson – named after the tasty dough balls for which he was famous – upgraded to an 8ft by 8ft trailer his fan base expanded.

Buzzrocks said one customer, who queued up with the rest of the hungry late night diners for his bowl of mouth-watering West Indian victuals, was none other than Ian Brown, former singer with the iconic Manchester band The Stone Roses fame.

The chef says the 47-year-old songwriter and musician is still devouring the dishes – only these days more comfortably in a restaurant – and will officially open a new sit-in café and takeaway on Moston Lane in Moston next week.

It will be Buzzrocks’ second takeaway in Manchester.

Buzzrocks’ twin sons 25-year-olds Marcus and Jamal, are helping their dad run the new eatery with its first floor restaurant along with his established takeaway with an option to dine in on Stretford Road in Hulme.

Meanwhile, daughter Sorayah, 20, who is studying creative expressive therapy, is preparing to work her relaxing therapeutic magic on the family as they juggle two businesses.

Rastafarian Buzzrocks, 60, who left Jamaica in 1976 to join his family in Manchester, was initially unaware of the celebrity status of the regular customer who could be seen at his trailer around street corners in Moss Side and Hulme in the Eighties.

Ian Brown was a loyal Manchester United fan who Buzzrocks said would drop by after a game or after one of his gigs.

"It was someone else who told me who he was," he said. "Everyone loved my jerk chicken, curried goat and rice and peas. It was very cheap and cheerful." And Brown, endearingly unassuming, never let on.

"He didn’t have the usual entourage you normally associate with rock stars," said Buzzrocks’ wife, Farida.

"He just queued up for his turn like everybody else." Self-taught Buzzrocks and Farida, who have lived in Hulme, Whalley Range and now Prestwich, are now watching the business that began humbly with spicy chicken being cooked in a jerkpan over coals at the annual Caribbean festival in Alexandra Park in Whalley Range becoming a household name.

And they are confident the award-winning brand will grow and grow.

"Everyone likes my special dumplings," chuckled Buzzrocks who refuses to share his secret recipe with anyone. "That is how I got my name."

Wife Farida, 48, knows what legend is all about. Her late father, Somalian Charlie Ali, was a bit of icon himself having owned and run the famous Plaza Cafe in Manchester where curry came in only three choices – hot, very hot, and suicidal.

She met her husband in Cheetham Hill and although she works as chief executive for the charity partners of Prisoners and Family Support she is very much part of the Buzzrocks brand.